New Zealand Film Commission Popular Movie

An ordinary guy suddenly finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that streams the violence for viewers. In order to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jamie Bell

Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melanie Lynskey

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Timothy Balme

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Taika Waititi

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch

A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.

Genre: Action

Cast: Munro Chambers

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Owen

A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nathan Meister

In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

Genre: Western

Cast: Michael Fassbender

Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Milo Cawthorne

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlotte Rampling

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes

A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation....

Genre: Action

Cast: Terry Potter

A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julian Dennison

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Morgana O'Reilly

Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a gay...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tim Roth

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Rolleston